I don't think so - 3PAR used a very similar paradigm starting in 2000 or so. Plus declustered RAID in general was invented by Garth Gibson (and used by Panasas)

I don't think so - 3PAR used a very similar paradigm starting in 2000 or so. Plus declustered RAID in general was invented by Garth Gibson (and used by Panasas) before that parent.